GKAP Analysis

Questions

Medical

  • Close-ended Question: “Would you be willing or unwilling to contribute a DNA sample, for example by a swab from your mouth, for use in current or future scientific or medical research?”
    • Willing
    • Somewhat Willing
    • Somewhat Unwilling
    • Unwilling
  • Open-ended Question: “Why [would/wouldn’t] you be willing to?”

Topline Summary

  • Number of Respondents
    • 2011: 4291
    • 2017: 1777

Open-Ended Analysis

Close-Ended Analysis

Note: The close-ended responses are ordinal variables ranging in willingness to contribute to a biobank. Now, the response numeric value will align to the following ordinal schema: Unwilling = 0, Somewhat Unwilling = 1, Somewhat Willing = 2, Willing = 3. Increasing numeric value indicates increased willingness to contribute to a biobank.

The following figures show differences in willingness across different demographics.

Politics

Race/Ethnicity

Age

Gender

Income

Education

Max Weiss

6/6/2018